Ok we’ve learned much more and really much less today and so I’m going to try to cover most of it.
First thing I want to touch on is the continued farce that Magoo wasn’t involved. People if I was president, and I can’t imagine any scenario where that could have happened because I don’t take shit and am not a billionaire, but if my AG and/or FBI director did something that would obviously have the potential to decrease my already dismal chances for re-election, I would fire them on the spot. You don’t do something this stupid without my approval!
Next, it’s still not clear about what happened with the warrant. But as I said yesterday. It doesn’t matter. What happened happened.
Now a funny thing I saw was some leftist wingnut gloating that Garland threw Trump under the bus by saying it was up to Trump to approve the release and then he said release it! I’m sure this idiot will apologize for being an idiot. NOT!
Next the warrant allowed them to search for any documents created during the Trump presidency and also to seize any documents that were in boxes close to those boxes. This is the definition of a fishing expedition and not a proper search
Then after they were under fire for their bs, they leaked to the WAPO that they were looking for the nuclear codes, but as any moron knows the codes are automatically changed when a president leaves office and if I remember correctly they are routinely changed every few months as a matter of security. And so the story changed that some of the documents were nuclear related. I don’t know what that means other than an attempt to justify the fishing expedition. Dana Perino said that when SCI (sensitive compartmented information) material was discussed all documents were collected and no one retained a copy. And as an aside, I had the clearance that would have allowed me to see all they are talking about if I had a need to know, which I didn’t except in a few instances. So the chance that Trump took this type of material from the WH is just nonsense.
Now let’s look at the timeline. As I have said previously Trump was dealing with the Archives from at least last January and in June Trump let them search mar-a-lago and told them they could take any documents they wanted and they went through what they confiscated on Monday and they didn’t take anything but just asked him to put a second padlock on the room where they were stored and he did and treated them to lunch. So how did the same material suddenly require a raid? They even broke the padlock they wanted. The timing is critical. Magoo is circling the drain and Trump is soaring and so they had to divert attention from their failures.
The last thing I want to discuss is the fact that the FBI told the Trump people to turn off the security cameras there and it’s not clear if they said no or just didn’t do it. I talked about it last night but am still incredulous that this hasn’t been reported on. Hannity has said so but Salcedo and the Five haven’t acknowledged it so I looked it up and feel free to do so. It appears that not only didn’t they turn them off but Trump and family watched in real-time. And Trump and Eric have said that the video shows clearly illegal activity by the agents. Before concluding ask yourself who doesn’t want you to see what they are doing? Someone acting legitimately or someone who is up to no good like planting evidence?
I am not his lawyer but I would have him declare this weekend and then release a tantalizing piece of the video showing illegal activity by the FBI.